In this video, Einzelgänger explores the similarities between a sigma male and joker.
Key Takeaways
He sometimes chuckles a bit when he sees people taking life too seriously. There’s another creature that does the same, and we call this creature the Joker.
When we look at human interactions, we see a vast network of customs. These customs are learned behavior.
We are not born to say yes madam or eat with a fork and knife. Women aren’t born to wear dresses and men aren’t born to wear suits.
So are the many traditions, like Christmas and Halloween, are invented rituals. These activities are pointless. Except for the social cohesion they facilitate.
So what are we human beings engaged in? Could it be that we are engaged in one big game and that this game consists of many sub-games.
After we have come into this world we are raised with a set of rules.
These rules can come in morals, ethics, codes of conduct, manners, rituals, traditions. We have to abide by the rules in order to become successful participants in society.
- For example we are taught that we should finish high school, then college, then find a job, then get married and get children.
If we follow the script, then we are seen as normal members of society. Which is great because now other normal members of society want to hang out with us and thus we can all engage in being normal members of society together playing the game.
Their identities are intertwined with the way in which they are playing the game—If they are winning or losing and where they stand in the hierarchy.
You can be a manager, father, a teacher, a consultant, a
fireman, cook. Like children that are completely absorbed in a space adventure while playing with their toys, the grown-ups are immersed in a societal roles, like their lives depend on them.
Just browse through the network website LinkedIn and you will see what I’m talking about.
Roles set us apart in the big play. By carrying out a role, other players can see where you stand in comparison with themselves, but there’s a person who sees through these human behaviors.
As a matter of fact, he sees the whole play that unfolds in front of his eyes as quite entertaining. He is not part of it. He is a spectator. He is the
Joker.
The Joker
The fact that that person has lost himself in the game, amuses him and if the Joker happens to be a bit on a sadistic side, he finds that woman who is completely upset because she lost her and her perception very important team lead position in a company quite humorous.
Not because the sole fact that she suffers, but because she’s so attached to the game that she cannot put her situation in perspective.
Especially when he sees how other people moan with her. Even those who secretly take pleasure in her career downgrade for whatever reason. Because he sees that for many, the act of pity is just another card in the deck. It’s a learned behavior that clouds through compassion.
The Joker laughs about human behavior, like we would laugh about a dog chasing a steal or a cat chasing a laser light, but seriousness some Joker’s are complete weirdos whose behavior is so off that they are regarded outcasts.
They do not conform, neither inwardly or outwardly to societal norms. They might be today’s comedians that poke fun at the stuff that people take most seriously, like religion or they might have been a court jesters of the ages.
In secret, the jester may even laugh at the tight facial expressions of the king and his guests, while they are doing their thing unaware that it is all just a game.
These jokers do not seek to stand out, do not seek pride in eccentricity, and our masses in using conformity as disguise, these jokers are Sigma males.